DISC '99
13th International Symposium on DIStributed Computing
September 27-29,
1999
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CALL FOR PAPERS
13th International Symposium on DIStributed Computing (DISC '99)
September 27-29, 1999
Bratislava, Slovak Republic
http://www.disc99.sk/
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IMPORTANT DATES
Deadline for regular submissions: April 9, 1999
Deadline for Brief Announcement submissions: May 10, 1999
Acceptance notification: June 16, 1999
Camera-ready papers due: July 6, 1999
SCOPE
DISC was formerly known as WDAG. The name change, which took effect in
1998, reflects the expansion from a workshop to a symposium and from
distributed algorithms to all aspects of distributed computing. The first
DISC, held in Andros, Greece, in September 1998, was a success, attracting
nearly ninety submissions in varied areas of distributed computing.
Original contributions to theory, design, analysis, implementation, or
application of distributed systems and networks are solicited. Topics of
interest include, but are not limited to:
* distributed algorithms and their complexity
* fault-tolerance of distributed systems
* consistency conditions, concurrency control, and synchronization
* multiprocessor/cluster architectures and algorithms
* cryptographic and security protocols for distributed systems
* distributed operating systems
* distributed computing issues on the internet and the web
* distributed systems management
* distributed applications, such as databases, mobile agents, and electronic
commerce
* communication network architectures and protocols
* specification, semantics, and verification of distributed systems
BRIEF ANNOUNCEMENT TRACK (NEW THIS YEAR)
In addition to regular papers, Brief Announcements are also solicited this
year. Ongoing work for which full papers are not ready yet or recent
results published elsewhere are suitable for submission as brief
announcements. It is hoped that researchers will use the brief announcement
track to quickly draw the attention of the community to their experiences,
insights and results from ongoing distributed computing projects.
The symposium program lists all accepted papers---regular and brief
announcements. Brief Announcements are presented at the symposium in a rump
session and get about 10 minutes each. Regular papers get about 25 minutes
each. The symposium proceedings will include only accepted regular papers
and will be published by Springer in its "Lecture Notes in Computer Science"
series (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/index.html). Accepted brief
announcements will be published in a Technical Report by the host university,
Comenius University in Bratislava.
ABSTRACT FORMAT
Unless mentioned otherwise, the following guidelines apply to submissions
to either track---regular track and brief announcement track.
Every submission should be in English, begin with a cover page, and followed
by an extended abstract. The cover page should include: (1) title,
(2) authors and affiliations, (3) postal and email address of contact author,
(4) whether the submission should be considered for the best student paper
award, (5) whether the submission should be considered for both regular and
brief announcement tracks, and (6) an abstract of the work in a few lines.
Items 4 and 5 apply only to regular submissions.
The extended abstract of a regular submission should be no longer than 4800
words and not exceed 12 pages on letter-size paper using at least 11 point
font and reasonable margins (the page limit includes all figures, tables,
and graphs). The extended abstract of a brief announcement should not exceed
4 pages using at least 11 point font and reasonable margins. Submissions
deviating from these guidelines will be rejected without consideration of
their merits.
It is recommended that the extended abstract begins with a succinct
statement of the problem or the issue being addressed, a summary of the main
results or conclusions, a brief statement of the key ideas, and a comparison
with related work, all tailored to a non-specialist.
ABSTRACT SUBMISSION
Authors are strongly encouraged to submit their papers electronically.
A detailed description of the electronic submission process is available at
http://sigact.acm.org/~disc99/DISC99.html. Authors who cannot submit
electronically must submit a printed copy to the DISC program chair at the
following address:
Prasad Jayanti
6211 Sudikoff Lab for Computer Science
Dartmouth College
Hanover, NH 03755
USA
Email: prasad@cs.dartmouth.edu
Phone: 603-646-1292 (USA)
Authors submitting hard copies should also send an e-mail to the program
chair indicating that they are submitting in this manner.
The deadline is the same for electronic and hardcopy submissions: regular or
dual-track submissions must be received by 11:59 PM EST April 9, 1999. Late
submissions might be rejected without consideration of their merits.
(The deadline for brief announcement submissions is 11:59 PM EST May 10, 1999.)
BEST STUDENT PAPER AWARD
A paper is eligible for the best student paper award if it is a regular
submission, one of its authors is a full-time student at the time of
submission and the student's contribution is significant. The program
committee may split this award or decline to make it.
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Angel Alvarez Technical University of Madrid
Anindya Basu Bell Labs
Shlomi Dolev Ben-Gurion University
Cynthia Dwork IBM, Almaden
Rachid Guerraoui Ecole Polytechnique, Lausaunne
Vassos Hadzilacos University of Toronto
Maurice Herlihy Brown University
Prasad Jayanti (Chair) Dartmouth College
Srinivasan Keshav Cornell University
Marios Mavronicolas University of Connecticut
Yoram Moses Technion
Alessandro Panconesi University of Bologna
Mike Reiter Bell Labs
Sam Toueg Cornell University
Moti Yung CertCo
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